Head Inside a Computer Lab.
Unit EQ: How do computers make students or employees more productive.
LEQ: How could being able to identify the parts inside a computer be useful to a computer owner?
Activating Strategies: Vocab. Log into moodle and take quiz. Password for quiz is "21skills"
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary: see above vocabulary quiz
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:* Students will take the moodle quiz.
Review links below and hand around computer parts.
  • Students will be divided into groups and be given a worksheet:
  • They will identify a computer part and its matching number.
  • After group reaches consensus on answers, students will return to their seats and the activity will be reviewed.
Hard DriveMother BoardMicroprocessorRibbon CableRAMCD/DVD ROMExpansion Slot
Summarizing Strategies: Picture bank worksheet with parts of computer matching is placed in students notebook.

Homework:

link to picture: